barrel organ

English

a street barrel organist

Alternative forms

• barrel-organ

Noun

barrel organ (plural barrel organs)

1. A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.

   Synonyms: roller organ, street organ

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):

     Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers were loud and liable to sudden bursts like those of a deranged barrel-organ.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.

Derived terms

• barrel organist

Translations

pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel

• Arabic: أُرْغُن يَدَوِيّ m (ʔurḡun yadawiyy)
• Armenian: երգեհոնիկ (hy) (ergehonik), շարմանկա (hy) (šarmanka)
• Azerbaijani: şarmanka
• Belarusian: катары́нка f (katarýnka), катры́нка f (katrýnka), шарма́нка f (šarmánka)
• Bulgarian: лате́рна m (latérna)
• Catalan: piano de maneta (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手搖風琴／手摇风琴 (zh) (shǒuyáo fēngqín)

• Czech: flašinet (cs) m, kolovrátek (cs) m
• Danish: lirekasse c
• Dutch: draaiorgel (nl) n
• Esperanto: gurdo
• Estonian: väntorel, leierkast
• Finnish: posetiivi (fi)
• French: orgue de Barbarie (fr) m
• Georgian: არღანი (ka) (arɣani)
• German: Drehorgel (de) f, Leierkasten (de) m
• Greek: λατέρνα (el) f (latérna), ρομβία (el) f (romvía)
• Hungarian: verkli (hu), kintorna (hu)
• Icelandic: lírukassi m
• Irish: bairille-orgán m, orgán bairille m
• Italian: organo a rullo m, organetto di Barberia m, organetto (it) m
• Japanese: 手回しオルガン (てまわしオルガン, temawashi orugan)
• Kazakh: шарманка (şarmanka)
• Korean: 휴대용 풍금(携帶用風琴) (hyudaeyong punggeum)
• Kyrgyz: шарманка (şarmanka)
• Latvian: leijerkaste f
• Lithuanian: ryla f
• Macedonian: вергл m (vergl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lirekasse m or f

  Nynorsk: lirekasse m or f

• Polish: katarynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: realejo (pt) m
• Romanian: flașnetă (ro) f
• Russian: шарма́нка (ru) f (šarmánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐргл m

  Roman: vèrgl (sh) m

• Slovak: verkeľ m, verklík m
• Slovene: lajna f
• Spanish: organito m, organillo m
• Swedish: positiv (sv) n, vevorgel c
• Tajik: шарманка (šarmanka)
• Turkish: lâterna (tr)
• Turkmen: şarmanka
• Ukrainian: катери́нка f (katerýnka), шарма́нка f (šarmánka)
• Uzbek: sharmanka (uz)
• Yiddish: קאַטערינקע f (katerinke)

See also

• organ grinder